by Richard | Jul 6, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
This year chicken slaughter has been planned around when I’d be on the farm, as I was supposed to spend most of the season on the road, touring Europe to document the reg ag scene. That means we get a bigger difference in weight than usually, but because we have...
by Richard | Jun 16, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
Today is a quick video documenting the very first move of 500 broilers in our roller pens. These birds are around 35 days old, so used to daily moves in Salatin pens, but I thought you might like to see what their first move in a strange new configuration was like: it...
by Richard | Jun 5, 2020 | Animal Enterprises
We’ve built our own low-cost roll away nest boxes that we use in our egg-mobiles in the summer and in the polytunnel during winter. I’ve had a lot of questions about how they’re made, so I dug into the archive to find footage of the construction process and give you...
by Richard | May 26, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
Today we’re smoking this year’s first batch of chickens. Smoking is a process that needs precision, and you’ll have to work out the particulars for your setup trough trial. We first learnt from a local with 50+ years of experience and you can find an...
by Richard | May 25, 2020 | Animal Enterprises
Tomorrow we’re bringing the cows back on our own land after a stay on the neighbours’. That means we need to have a grazing plan in place to make sure we have the animals in the right place at the right time for the right reasons. I figured I’d do a how-to video to...
by Richard | May 20, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
Here at Ridgedale, we operate Europe’s cheapest approved slaughter facility. Today is the first slaughter of the year, and we’re going to try something new; weight-categorising the birds into five categories in the chiller in order to facilitate easeful packing. Tune...
